title: Role of fine needle aspiration cytology in surgical treatment of breast cancer.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the clinical value of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) for breast cancer surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  FNAC was performed in 530 patients highly suspected of breast cancer from January 2004 to January 2009 in Peking Union Medical College Hospital. The FNAC-positive cases received radical operation directly, while the negative cases received open biopsy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of all 530 cases, 325 cases were FNAC-positive, and the diseases were histopathologically confirmed to be malignant. Among 205 FNAC-negative cases, 137 cases were histopathologically confirmed to be malignant and 68 benign.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  FNAC is useful in the deciding surgical modes for women with potentially malignant diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Breast Surgery, PUMC Hospital, CAMS and PUMC, Beijing 100730, China.
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Sun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Qiang
authors.forename: Zhou
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wei-Xuan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged